County: Meath Site name: DUNSHAUGHLIN: Lagore Road
Sites and Monuments Record No.: N/A Licence number: 01E1064
Author: Rosanne Meenan
Site type: No archaeology found
Period/Dating: N/A
ITM: E 697461m, N 752332m
Latitude, Longitude (decimal degrees): 53.511931, -6.530576
The nearest known monument to the development site is Lagore crannog (SMR 38:27), approximately 1km to the north-east. Dunshaughlin village with its monastic enclosure and Anglo-Norman motte lies approximately 1km to the west. Testing was carried out on a low mound close to the north-eastern corner of the site (see No. 966, Excavations 2001, 01E0279), which proved to have no archaeological significance.
The development site is currently open pasture. Drainage is very poor along the north side of the Lagore Road. The development will be carried out in several phases, with Phase 1 comprising an access road, seventeen dwelling-houses and open space. Monitoring of the Phase 1 topsoil removal was carried out intermittently over three weeks in November 2001. The topsoil was removed all over the site in stages. It was a loamy, light brown soil, up to 0.6m deep in places. Where it was bottomed in some places, a stiff grey-brown silty subsoil was exposed. There was a lot of broken stone, suggesting that bedrock was close to the surface in places.
There was evidence for land drains all over the site. These were necessitated by the poor drainage in the area. They were investigated by hand in several different locations. Nothing of archaeological significance was observed in any of the drains and it was assumed that they were 19th–20th-century in date.
Nothing of archaeological significance was observed.
Roestown, Drumree, Co. Meath
